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manofbats (manofbats) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-09 18:33:00

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char: black canary/dinah drake, char: rima, char: the avenger/richard henry benson, char: the spirit/denny colt, creator: brian azzarello, creator: rags morales, title: first wave

More First Wave: Justice Inc., The Spirit, Black Canary, Rima the Jungle Girl

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	tacobob 2009-11-10 04:33 am UTC (link)
	Tells you how behind I am in the Funny Book business now that I can't afford them like I used to. I didn't even know the Spirit was running around in the DC Universe. And that. er. movie. :S (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darkknightjrk 2009-11-10 04:42 am UTC (link)
	The movie...had it's downs (I'd put it more to an awkward first movie from a new director then anything, but I digress), but Cooke's run on The Spirit was very good. I'd heartily recommend getting those. The first thing he did, Batman/Spirit, might be hard to find because I don't think it was traded, but his run on the series proper is in two nice trades. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-10 07:28 am UTC (link)
	It IS traded, if you mean the one-issue team-up - I have the first TPB of the series, and it's in there. (Reply to this) (Parent)

kamino_neko
2009-11-10 04:51 am UTC (link)

Well, to actually answer your question - they first gained the actual rights to the character (rather than a licence, which I'm pretty sure was the case with the earlier series they did) in 2005 or 2006, and had a series running from early-2007 until this past August.

Darwyn Cooke did the early issues. After he left, there was an anthology issue by a number of different writers and artists, and Mark Evanier and Sergio Argones then took over as the permanent creative team. Mike Ploog was writing and co-pencilling at the end.

Cooke's run (the first 12 issues) is worth reading. The anthology issue was good. Evanier and Argones, as good as they are, just weren't able to capture the charm of either Eisner's original or Cooke's take. I can't comment on what came after them, since I dropped it during their run.

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	aaron_bourque 2009-11-10 04:53 am UTC (link)
	What movie? A Spirit movie? That would be awesome! Here's hoping they don't try to copy other comic book movies, like Watchmen, or worse (tonally), Sin City! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tacobob 2009-11-10 05:07 am UTC (link)
	They actually did a few movies. They did a TV movie many years ago, and that thing they had in theaters a year ago. Shudder. And The Spirit. Did the series take place in the present? He's like Captain Marvel. He belongs in the past. I'd love to see an Golden Age type series. :3 (Reply to this) (Parent)

	endis_ni 2009-11-10 12:22 pm UTC (link)
	Can I come live in your universe? It obviously has a much better grasp of cinema than the one I'm stuck in. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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